Lilia Lemoine was appointed this week 1st secretary of the Science and Technology Commission of the Chamber of Deputiesan appointment that was accompanied by a barrage of criticism and irony on social networks for his videos about the flat earthing and other controversial positions defended by the libertarian legislator, such as those where she questioned NASA’s moon landing. Also questioned the scientific progress around the coronavirusin line with the conspiracy theories that gained strength during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Deputy Lemoine will assume a new role in Parliament, since her appointment as first secretary of the commission led by Daniel Gollan was approved by a majority.
However, the appointment had as a correlate a series of reactions on the networks that varied from rejection to ironic nuances. Specifically, some clips and publications of the libertarian influencer were resurfaced where she defended proposals radically opposed to scientific criteria.
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Among the most viral videos, the one in which the cosplayer stood out openly adhered to the statements of flat earthism.
The now 1st Secretary of the Science Commission alleged as proof that “there are no commercial flights across the Pacific Ocean.”
“If the Earth were flat, then air routes would be explained much better than if the Earth were spherical,” Lemoine insisted.
Next, the libertarian official listed the reasons why governments They want to hide from humanity that the Earth “is flat and there is a great wall of ice that surrounds it”.
The video was also released in which the leader, distrustful of the progress of the scientific community regarding the coronavirus, proposed a peculiar testing method.
“We have the World Health Organization, each country has its Conicet, its scientists… Is it so difficult to grab a coronavirus patient, make him cough on a table and then have another person go, of course without a risk factor? , to lick the table and see if it gets infected or not?” Lemoine asked himself at that time.
Another of Lemoine’s “pearls” with the scientific community was reflected in a tweet from last year, when the legislator questioned the veracity of NASA’s expeditions to the moon.
“The Moon thing continues to feel so murky… those at NASA make you doubt when they tell you ‘we lost the technology to return,'” the current 1st secretary of the Science Commission stated in her X account.
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